摘要：This paper examines the Matthean ‘exception clauses’ to determine whether they should be interpreted inclusively (‘if a man divorces his wife even though she has not been unfaithful’), exceptively (‘if a man divorces his wife, except if she has been unfaithful’), or exclusively (‘if a man divorces his wife—πορνεία is a separate issue’). In this grammatical study the author draws on a broad sample of classical and Koine texts from which he concludes that παρεκτός in Matthew 5:32 should, on syntactic grounds, be read as marking an exception, whereas in the later account (μὴ ἐπὶ, Mt.19:9) Matthew presents Jesus as excluding the matter of πορνεία. The enigma of the meaning of πορνεία, however will not go away. The author then summarises his reasons for interpreting πορνεία as incestuous relationships and marriages
